Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Jan 2022
Downing Street Garden Event
"This is not the straw that broke the camel’s back; it is a 10-tonne weight being placed directly on the poor dilapidated beast’s posterior. Surely if the Prime Minister has a smidgen of self-respect or any sense of integrity, he will be listening to this and decide himself that it …..."Pete Wishart - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Nov 2021
Conduct of the Right Hon. Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip
"This has been some debate. I have to say at the outset that I did not think our modest little motion would trigger Tory Back Benchers in the way it has done. There have been some amazing speeches in response to what we put forward, in a very reasonable motion …..."Pete Wishart - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Nov 2021
Conduct of the Right Hon. Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip
"This is the only time I am giving way...."Pete Wishart - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Nov 2021
Conduct of the Right Hon. Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip
"Absolutely and utterly. It would take all day—longer than I am allowed—just to list the corruption and sleaze in even the scantiest of detail. Conservative Members are up to their necks in it. They might wish, as they have been doing all afternoon, that the public did not care about …..."Pete Wishart - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Nov 2021
Conduct of the Right Hon. Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip
"I will obviously follow your strictures, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am not referring to individuals. I am referring to that place down the corridor.
Hardly any of the Labour party turned up today; two Back Benchers came along. I say to them all, “Help us! Help us to clean that …..."Pete Wishart - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 25th October 2021
Asked by:
Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire)
Question
to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue has been raised from the Duty Stamps Scheme since the introduction of that scheme.
Answered by Helen Whately
- Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Duty stamps do not raise revenue, they are an anti-fraud measure that have helped secure the alcohol supply chain, making it more difficult for illicit products to infiltrate the market. HMRC’s tax gap estimate indicates that such measures are successfully keeping spirit’s fraud at historically low levels.
The Government is keen to support innovation in the alcohol sector. That is why, at Budget 2020, we announced plans to review alcohol duty with the aim of improving the current system to make it simpler, more economically rational and less administratively burdensome.
Following a Call for Evidence launched in October 2020, the Government is currently considering the responses. While scope of this review does not include duty stamps, HM Revenue and Customs will review the duty stamps policy when any changes to the alcohol regime have been developed.
Written Question
Monday 25th October 2021
Asked by:
Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire)
Question
to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to review the application of duty stamps on Scotch whisky and spirits.
Answered by Helen Whately
- Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Duty stamps do not raise revenue, they are an anti-fraud measure that have helped secure the alcohol supply chain, making it more difficult for illicit products to infiltrate the market. HMRC’s tax gap estimate indicates that such measures are successfully keeping spirit’s fraud at historically low levels.
The Government is keen to support innovation in the alcohol sector. That is why, at Budget 2020, we announced plans to review alcohol duty with the aim of improving the current system to make it simpler, more economically rational and less administratively burdensome.
Following a Call for Evidence launched in October 2020, the Government is currently considering the responses. While scope of this review does not include duty stamps, HM Revenue and Customs will review the duty stamps policy when any changes to the alcohol regime have been developed.
Written Question
Monday 25th October 2021
Asked by:
Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire)
Question
to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many instances of sprits and duty fraud have been successfully prosecuted since the introduction of the Duty Stamps Scheme.
Answered by Helen Whately
- Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
HMRC regularly publishes alcohol fraud prosecution data on the GOV.UK website. The most recent publication (Tackling alcohol smuggling: outputs – April 2016 to April 2019) shows that during the period April 2016 and March 2019 HMRC conducted 33 arrests with 25 convictions for offences relating to alcohol fraud. Figures for the periods since April 2019 will be published in due course.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Dec 2020
Future Relationship with the EU
"Here we are again—yet another deadline. October was a deadline, then it was November, then 1 December, then Friday, then Monday, then it was the last supper and now it is Sunday. God knows what it will be after that. I remember the good old days when Brexit was concluded …..."Pete Wishart - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Dec 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations and Transition Period
"So here we are at the 59th minute of the eleventh hour, where we were arguably always going to be. What was supposed to be the easiest deal in history has become the biggest unconcluded disaster of modern times. The oven-ready deal was in fact a barely defrosted turkey. We …..."Pete Wishart - View Speech
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